Kubernetes Jobs at Ava Labs

We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This Engineer will enable our developers as they work efficiently while building a vibrant ecosystem for the Avalanche Blockchain. You'll enable our teams across several business units and engineering teams to design, optimize, and and implement greenfield technology for a variety of use cases. This particular role will be a key part of our release schedule and production monitoring.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design, develop, and optimize highly reliable and scalable infrastructure focused on SRE principles.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing tools to gain insights into service behavior and health.
• Establish and uphold SLOs (Service Level Objectives), SLIs (Service Level Indicators), and error budgets for critical systems.
• Enhance the reliability and resiliency of critical systems by identifying single points of failure and implementing best practices.
• Collaborate with software developers to build reliability and performance into applications from inception.
• Automate and streamline incident management processes to minimize service disruption and improve response times.
• Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring quick restoration of services and fostering a blameless post-mortem culture.
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset by analyzing and learning from incidents and implementing preventive measures.
• Leverage cloud technologies and IaC tools to ensure scalability and repeatability.
• Advocate for best practices in reliability, security, and maintainability within the team and across the organization.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineer.
• Strong grasp of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Cloud networking and orchestration with AWS (EKS, ECS, VPC, S3, ELB).
• Strong Kubernetes experience with Docker or RKT containerization.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (preferred), Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI.
• Experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures. (Ubuntu preferred).
• Experience with scripting languages and the creation of scripts. (Python and GoLang preferred).
• Working knowledge of decentralized architecture design patterns and distributed systems.

Salary Range: $175,000 to $218,800

(**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

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